My last thread seems to have gotten a little long, so I thought I would rather start a new one…

Anyway, the last couple of months have been quite good around the Western Cape in terms of finding good stuff out in the field – here are a few of my finds since the beginning of September 2012. It’s been awesome to finally have some decent activity again and I hope it continues for a good while still… I even managed to find a couple of species that I had never seen before, so I was well chuffed…

Ocellated Thick-toed Gecko - Pachydactylus geitje

Large-scaled Girdled Lizard - Cordylus macropholis

Cuvier’s Blind Legless Skink - Typhlosaurus caecus

Silvery Dwarf Burrowing Skink - Scelotes bipes

Gronovi’s Dwarf Burrowing Skink - Scelotes gronovii

Bloubergstrand Dwarf Burrowing Skink - Scelotes montispectus

Common Slug-eater - Duberria lutrix

Cape Worm Snake (aka Black Thread Snake) - Leptotyphlops nigricans

Herald Snake - Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia

Spotted Skaapsteker - Psammophylax rhombeatus

Karoo Sand Snake - Psammophis notostictus

Spotted Harlequin Snake - Homoroselaps lacteus

Puffadder - Bitis arietans

Boomslang - Dispholidus typus

Raucous Toad - Amietophrynus rangeri

Striped Stream Frog - Strongylopus fasciatus

Rattling Frog - Semnodactylus wealii

Eastern Ghost Frog - Heleophryne orientalis

Strawberry Rain Frog - Breviceps acutirostris

Sand Rain Frog - Breviceps rosei

Namaqua Rain Frog - Breviceps namaquensis

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Bushviper, all of these animals were found through actively searching various areas, mostly looking under rocks, logs, junk lying out in the veld or scratching around in molehills or at the base of vegetation.

Westley, I very seldom see C. macropholis out in the open, but when I do, it is generally darting between patches of restios. I have never seen them out in the open basking. Most of the time, I just find them under things in the veld.

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